Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...re two of the few 19th- and early 20th century prominent Catholic women feminists who advocated for women’s equality, specifically a woman’s right to vote. Both were very active within the women’s suffrage movement until the passage of the nineteenth amendment. Sarah Jane Campbell Jane, a prolific writer and speaker,

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Ann Mattingly’s Miracle Cure

...s. After this, she was unable to leave her bed for months, though she was visited consistently by doctors. The pamphlet gives explicit details of the pain and agony she endured while she was bedbound. One such detail is that “she constantly felt a tightness across her breast, as if

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...part of the In Her Own Right project through PACSCL, we have been able to digitize the correspondence of Marianne and Sarah Jane (referred to as Jane) Campbell. As discussed in a past blog post, the sisters were actively involved in the suffragist movement in the late 1800s and early

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American Czestochowa

...aced with two visits by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, the future Saint John Paul II. The first was in 1969 and the second was in 1976 when he was here for the 41st International Eucharistic Congress. In his sermon given in 1969, Cardinal Wojtyla talked about the need for those of

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